enneagram v. love language RESULTS!
thank you to everyone who participated in my survey from a couple weeks ago! we ended up getting over 400 responses, with a good distribution of enneagram types represented. I have finally got around to posting the results! (sorry this has taken so long, I just finished final exams)
here was the breakdown of types and love languages-
note that quality time is the most common love language, and gifts is the least. this same distribution is seen across most (but not all) of the types, but with different spreads.
now I'll get into each type-
Type 1: quality time, words and service
from 29 responses, quality time is the highest (36.8%), however ones show a smaller percentage of quality time than the total sample population (49.4%). acts of service and words of affirmation are equally weighted in the ones. ones had the highest percentage of acts of service among all of the types.
Type 2: quality time, touch and words
from 33 responses, twos have a pretty evenly split distribution, save for gifts which only appeared once. most notably, touch is almost equal to quality time. twos had the highest percentage of touch, followed very closely by 8s, with 26.7%.
Type 3: words of affirmation
perhaps unsurprisingly, the 43 sampled threes show a strong preference for words of affirmation. threes had the highest percentage of words of affirmation across the board, and are 10% higher for that language than the total sample population.
Type 4: quality time, touch and words
the four data, from 33 responses, is perhaps most notable for the small percentage of acts of service. the total percentage of acts of service from the data was 21.7%, yet fours only had 4.7%. quality time prevailed as the most common, and words and touch were tied for second place.
Type 5: quality time, touch
the 43 fives have a pretty even distribution, which is almost identical to the distribution of the main sample population (also shown). the main difference in fives is that touch is more common than words of affirmation.
Type 6: quality time, words
6 was our most represented type, with 92 responses! again, this is very similar to the main distribution (perhaps because 6s had the most influence on the main pool). most notable here is that sixes have a larger gift percentage than 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 9s, and that the other four love languages are decently even.
Type 7: quality time
from the responses of 32 sevens, this chart is the most dominated by any one love language. sevens showed a clear preference for quality time, and have the highest percentage of quality time of any type. also worth noting is the relatively high percentage of gifts as compared to the other types, and the low percentage of words of affirmation.
Type 8: quality time, touch
8s were the least represented type in the study, with 26 responses. eights have both the lowest quality time and words of affirmation percentage and the highest gift percentage! they were the only type where gifts wasn't the lowest percentage.
Type 9: quality time
and finally we have our nines! nines, like sevens, showed a clear preference for quality time, with touch as the second most common love language. unlike their neighbor 8, gifts were not very popular among nines.
triad discussion-
the aggregate triad data is not particularly insightful, as the distributions aren't ~that~ different. most notably, gut triad has the highest quality time percentage (despite 7s being a member of the thinking triad), and feeling triad had the highest words of affirmation percentage, probably from the threes.
ranking by love language-
lastly, here is the ranking by love language:
acts of service- 1, 6, 8, 5, 2, 9, 7, 3, 4
quality time- 7, 9, 4, 5, 1, 2, 6, 3, 8
words of affirmation- 3, 4, 6, 2, 1, 9, 5, 7, 8
physical touch- 2, 8, 4, 5, 9, 7, 6, 1, 3
gifts- 8, 7, 6, 3, 5, 9, 1, 2, 4
thank you again if you participated in this survey! I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments. if there's any more data from this you'd like me to pull and share, let me know!
Posted Dec 14, 2020, 4:17 PM UTC